The "Who is taking their iPAD back" thread

Paid $500 for this thing and cant even use it more than 5 minutes before it logs me off my network or asks for the password again. Most the time I have to try multiple times before I can get back on. Meanwhile, my Macbook runs just fine on the same wifi network. Taking it back first thing in the morning, ridiculous.

Ok, so blame your lack of knowledge on properly setting up routers...along with your garbage WiFi connectivitiy...on the iPad? Maybe you should just return it and use the money to hire someone to come properly install your router and test for signal interference.

Ok, so blame your lack of knowledge on properly setting up routers...along with your garbage WiFi connectivitiy...on the iPad? Maybe you should just return it and use the money to hire someone to come properly install your router and test for signal interference.

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What a douche...

Before you jump in with statements like that oh great mighty router god. Tell me.. how do you wrongly set up a router to keep cutting the connection out? A cant seem to find such an option? oh mighty router god please enlighten us all.

I haven't had any issues with either of the 2 in my household. On this forums at least, a lot of people seemed to have wifi issues with the iPod touch, iPhone, and now a few a trickling in about the iPad. I work in the tech field, most of their issues appear to be operator error from reading it. No way to tell.

With that being said, if your laptop is better at what you need it to do, take the iPad back and get your money bro'.

Use the money you saved to take your significant other out for a night on the town. Don't worry about posting on these forums about it. Live your life.

I'm taking mine back, but will hopefully exchange it for one that does not have a dead/stuck pixel. The pixel is small and dark and in most cases hard to notice. Other than that I think the device is great so far.

Paid $500 for this thing and cant even use it more than 5 minutes before it logs me off my network or asks for the password again. Most the time I have to try multiple times before I can get back on. Meanwhile, my Macbook runs just fine on the same wifi network. Taking it back first thing in the morning, ridiculous.

I think it goes without saying that the iPad came with the latest firmware/software available.... Before you get to hard on the connectivity issues, make sure your network equipment, router, wifi bases, whatever you use are also at the latest firmware revisions.

Your Macbook might be able to hold signal because it has a more robust antenna that can cut through all of the interference while the iPad can't. Is that a problem with the iPad? No. The iPad is a portable device with different hardware.

If you had posted that an iPod Touch or iPhone could and the iPad couldn't then I might be impressed.

Change the channel your router is using, check the router position to ensure it is high enough (top of a shelf etc), and switch to 5GHz if you have an 802.11n router living in a densely populated area.

Florescent lights, microwaves, cheap major appliances (dryers), 2.4GHz cordless handsets, and so on can also interfere.

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